37.972, Confs: 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Hungary)

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Date: 07-Mar-2026
From: Yuki Arase [arase at c.titech.ac.jp]
Subject: 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing


2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Short Title: EMNLP

Date: 24-Oct-2026 - 29-Oct-2026
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Meeting URL: https://2026.emnlp.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 25-May-2026

EMNLP 2026 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring
substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods
for Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2026 has a goal of curating a
diverse technical program—in addition to traditional research results,
papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the
creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic
insights derived using existing computational techniques, and
reproduce (or fail to reproduce) previous results. As in recent years,
some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted
by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and the Computational
Linguistics (CL) journals.
Important Dates:
 - ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) May 25, 2026
 - Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors May 27, 2026
 - Author response and author-reviewer discussion July 7 - July 13,
2026
 - Meta review released July 30, 2026
 - EMNLP commitment deadline August 2, 2026
 - Notification of acceptance (long & short papers) August 20, 2026
 - Camera-ready papers due (long & short) September 20, 2026
 - Main Conference (dates for Workshops/Tutorials TBD) October 22 -
26, 2026
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Following the ACL and ARR policies, there is no anonymity period
requirement.
At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a
preferred venue (e.g., EMNLP 2026). This is used only to calculate
acceptance rates. Authors who selected EMNLP 2026 as a preferred venue
when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to EMNLP 2026 after
receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue
other than EMNLP 2026 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to
commit to EMNLP 2026.
New: Paper Integrity Policies at EMNLP
There is growing concern in our community regarding unethical paper
submissions that overwhelm community resources, including but not
limited to, thinly sliced contributions, submissions with hallucinated
citations, and entirely AI-generated papers (AI writing assistance is
permitted). EMNLP will take actions against such submissions, as well
as submissions that violate the ACL Policy on Publication Ethics. Such
submissions may be desk rejected, and all authors involved in the
submission may be ineligible to commit their paper(s) to EMNLP 2026
and EMNLP 2027.
Paper Submission Information:
Dual submissions are not allowed! Please check the ARR Multiple
Submission Policy for details. Papers must be submitted, at latest, by
the ARR 2026 May cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a
meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2026 May cycle or an
earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EMNLP via the commitment link.
Mandatory Reviewing Workload:
All authors are expected to sign up to review, or serve as an Area
Chair or Senior Area Chair, with assignments subsequently based on
qualifications. After submission, all authors must complete the author
registration form by May 27, 2026 EoD AoE. If you receive assignments,
your reviews must be completed by July 6, or your meta-reviews - by
July 29. In case of any emergencies, the chairs should be warned via
the emergency declaration form.
Highly irresponsible reviewers may be ineligible to (re-)submit or
commit their work during the next ARR cycle. The submitting authors
should (a) make sure that all other authors are aware of this policy,
and (b) check that everybody on their team(s) submits their
(meta-)reviews on time and in accordance with the guidelines. You can
read additional details on the definition of highly irresponsible
reviewers and the corresponding ARR policy here:
https://aclrollingreview.org/incentives2025
AI Reviewing Experiment (opt-in):
The Program Committee plans on running an opt-in AI Reviewing
Experiment to collect feedback from authors on the utility of AI
Reviewers in the review process. The AI Reviews for opted-in
submissions will not inform any part of the conference decision
process. We will run this experiment under IRB approval, using
open-weights models running on in-house compute resources, or closed
models that guarantee zero-data retention.
Submission Topics:
EMNLP 2026 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for
the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
 - Clinical and Biomedical Applications
 - NLP and Code Models
 - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics
 - Dialogue and Interactive Systems
 - Discourse and Pragmatics
 - Efficient Methods for NLP
 - Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
 - NLP and Symbolic Reasoning
 - Generation
 - Human-Centered NLP and Human-AI Interaction
 - Information Extraction
 - Information Retrieval and Text Mining
 - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
 - Language Modeling
 - LLM Agents
 - LLM Security
 - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics
 - Machine Learning for NLP
 - Machine Translation
 - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP
 - Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond
 - NLP Applications
 - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation
 - Question Answering
 - Resources and Evaluation
 - Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level
 - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
 - Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language
Understanding
 - Summarization
 - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing
Special Theme: New Missions for NLP Research
EMNLP 2026 Theme Track: New Missions for NLP Research Large language
models have rapidly shifted from research prototypes to widely used
infrastructure. This new reality is changing the center of gravity of
NLP research, and progress can no longer be measured only by
fractional improvements in benchmark scores. When strong
general-purpose models are increasingly available through open
releases and commercial platforms, the field faces a more foundational
question: What are the missions of NLP research now, and what kinds of
contributions most advance that mission?
The EMNLP 2026 special theme invites papers that articulate, test, and
advance visions for NLP in this era. We welcome work that reflects on
the mission(s) of NLP research, reframes our collective research
goals, proposes new evaluation and scientific methodologies, and
builds bridges across multiple disciplines that can sharpen both our
theories and our impact. Submissions may be empirical, theoretical, or
position and survey papers, but should be grounded in clear claims,
strong evidence, and actionable insights.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
 - Rethinking progress and evaluation in NLP
For example, going beyond static leaderboards, including real-world
impact, trustworthiness, robustness, and longitudinal behavior; what
“generalization” should mean for humans vs models, and when models are
reused, adapted, and deployed in diverse settings, etc.
 - From models to systems and ecosystems
For example, how does system-level research on agentic workflows, tool
use, and multi-model orchestration interface with human experiences;
and at an ecosystem level, how do people, organizations, and
communities use and interact with language technology.
 - Scientific understanding of language and cognition
For example, using contemporary models as experimental instruments for
psycholinguistics, cognitive science, language acquisition, and field
linguistics; and what models reveal, and fail to reveal, about human
cognition, the nature of language, learning, and meaning.
 - Data as a bottleneck and a responsibility
For example, research on data scarcity and limits, contamination, and
the consequences of synthetic data feedback loops, and new approaches
to data creation, documentation, governance, and consent.
 - LLMs as research tools: AI in research
For example, rigorous studies of how LLMs can support the research
process in hypothesis generation, experiment design, analysis, and
peer review support tools without eroding scientific standards.
This special theme is intended to complement the breadth of EMNLP, not
narrow it. We encourage submissions that are ambitious in scope while
remaining concrete in claims and methodology, and that help the
community clarify what research looks like in the next chapter of NLP.
Two Stage Review:
Submission to ARR, Commitment to EMNLP:
EMNLP 2026 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as a reviewing system,
but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions
of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the
conference will be performed via the Open Review platform.
Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process:
1. Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews
and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; Authors commit
their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., EMNLP 2026),
where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions
from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Authorship during commitment.
During the commitment phase, it is not allowed to modify the author
list (i.e., addition/deletion of authors is not allowed). However,
modification of author order is possible.
2. EMNLP 2026 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2026
conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated
submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission
periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully
reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a
conference, or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews.
The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will
not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers and reviews on ARR
will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the
option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles
publicly visible.
Paper Submission Detail:
Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR
submission requirements, including:
 - Long Papers (8 pages) and Short Papers (4 pages)
 - Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review
 - Authorship
 - Citation and Comparison
 - Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal
Policy
 - ACL’s Publication Ethics Policy, and ARR’s Ethics Policy including
the responsible NLP research checklist
 - ACL’s Disclosure Policy
 - Limitations
 - Writing Assistance
 - Paper Submission and Templates
 - Optional Supplementary Materials
 - Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page
of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short
papers) to address reviewers’ comments.
Presentation at the Conference:
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in
the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and
virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting
author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to
rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as
posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers
will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will
be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally
and papers presented as posters.
Contact Information:
General Chair:
André Martins, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Program Chairs:
Sunipa Dev, Google
Desmond Elliott, University of Copenhagen
Hung-yi Lee, National Taiwan University
Jessy Li, The University of Texas at Austin
For questions related to paper submission, and the review process in
general, email: editors at aclrollingreview.org
For questions about commitment and post review related topics, email:
emnlp2026-programchairs at googlegroups.com



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